A new wave of protests. Words of hope letters from family members and friends become a lifeline for coronavirus patients in mexico. One of the philippines most prominent journalists has been found guilty of libel and the case seen as a major blow to press freedom maria ressa denies the charges brought over an article published on her news website rappler linked a wealthy businessman to criminal activity for online portal is highlighted extrajudicial killings and abuses during president ford rico deter face time in office is expected to appeal against the conviction that carries a sentence of up to 6 years in prison. I appeal to you the journalists in this room the filipinos who are in this. Protect your right. We are men. Of course canary tale we are meant to make you a great. Great soul the only appeal again. Dont be afraid because if you dont use your rights you will lose them we dont go to college a brazen move to try to roll back the rights guaranteed in the constitution we will lo
And its been a rough week in new and well get to some of that later but i deliberately want to begin tonight with an update on a real good news story that has happened just this past week and which we continue to follow until now governments had sent men and women up into space but when we retired the Space Shuttle we began meeting to hitch a ride with the russians to join our russian partners at the International Space station and 86000000. 00 cab fare so when private enterprise got the usa back into the game with the reuse of all rocket no less it was a proud moment a respite from all else thats challenged us lately here on earth where in space do we boldly go next lets ask a long time Network Space correspondent john beers nico on. There with jail pickering of among other books the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments and the space age presidency of john f. Kennedy are rare photographic history john space x. Had already been shuttling cargo up to the sas
A ride with the russians to join our russian partners at the International Space station and 86000000. 00 cab fare so when private enterprise got the usa back into the game with the reuse of all rocket no less it was a proud moment a respite from all else that challenged us lately here on earth where in space do we boldly go next lets ask a long time Network Space correspondent john business coauthor with jail pickering of among other books the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments in the space age presidency of john f. Kennedy a rare photographic history john space x. Had already been shuttling cargo up to the i. S. A. s how is ferrying astronauts there a game changer as we continue to explore that final frontier. I think its significant on several fronts holland 1st of all as you say its the 1st time a private company has done that and thats sort of been the goal of the series of us have ministrations going back for a period of years they wanted too. Move t
A deal to cut production iran says its exempt from the agreement along with libya and venezuela. A 2 week cease fire comes into effect in yemen but the heathy say they wont stop fighting while the country is still under siege. And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food we look at the difficulties for aid agencies during the coronavirus crisis. So that the damage to the worlds biggest economy from the current of our shutdown is really hitting home in the past week another 6600000 people in the United States have joined the jobless queue and that means nearly 17000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits in just 3 weeks that figure is around one in 10 workers White House Correspondent can be help it says there are fears the figures could be even worse. Nothing like this scene in modern history and it is expected to be more because heres the reality the states unemployment offices are overwhelmed they cannot keep up with the processing of claims so weve ha
Markets react positively is a drug developed for ebola shows potential for treatment of patients with over 19. And residents in ukraines capital are told to stay indoors as wildfires near term noble cause pollution levels to soar. Hello thanks for joining us africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the United Nations warns that wont last long it says that at least 300000 people will die when the virus takes hold there unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the World Health Organization says the situation there is probably worse than thoughts in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own going to. And a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does with the current joe volpe doing testing kits its likely that the numbers are higher than reported well fewer than 2020000 cases have been reported across the continent to date but the World Health Organization is concerned there could be 10000000 in t